Hi Branden,
> .SM
> .B IFS\^\c
> )
>
> I think the intention here was to get back to the normal-size roman
> font after "IFS" without introducing a stretchable space (hence \c)
> but still leave some room between the small bold IFS and the closing
> parenthesis, hance the hair space \^.
Agreed.
> My question is, were the man macros intended to work this way? Should
> we expect ")" to render in a small font, or full-size roman?
.SM affect the next input line as it uses an input trap, `.it'. `\c'
doesn't make an input line continue to the next as far as input traps
are concerned; groff has .itc for that. So the .SM is over by the `)'.
groff's Postscript output seems to agree.
/F0 10 /Times-Roman@0 SF
/F1 9 /Times-Bold@0 SF
(IFS) 72 84 moveto show
F0(\)) .75 0 rmoveto show
I welcome being corrected. :-)
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